their party from the Communists.In the 1930s the depression affected Germany and once again the country goes hungry. The government agrees to reschedule reparation payments. Hitler used this to his advantage; he campaigned against the reparation payments and gained much support. Adolf returned to his old arguments and but toned down his speeches against the Jewish community. Hitler promised to get rid of the communists and reunite all German speaking parts of Europe. During 1932, elections were held. In these elections Hitler captured the crowds with his amazing speaking power and the Nazis received 38% of the votes, more than any other party. This was good enough for Hitler to be chancellor of Germany.Hitler needed a plan to get rid of all the communists in the Reichstag (this is the name of the parliament building in Munich), and to get more Nazis in. Goring, a friend of Hitlers and the Minister of Interior for Prussia devised a plan. With Hitlers approval he would burn the Reichstag edifice and blame it on the communists. Hitler agreed. By a strange coincidence on February 27th, 1933 Marinus van der Lubbe of Holland, a communist, decided to burn the Reichstag. He broke in at 9 p.m., took off his shirt and lit it on fire. He went around trying to light anything flammable in the building, but on the same day the Nazi Karl Ernst with a group of storm troopers travelled into the Reichstag through an underground tunnel from Gorings house. They littered the floor with gasoline, lit it and fled the building.With the fortunate turn of events the Nazi Goring accused the communists of setting the Reichstag on fire and Hitler used it to his advantage. Hitler said:Every communist official should be shot. All communists must be hanged this very night. All friends of communists must be locked up. And that goes for Social Democrats and the Reichbanner as well.(The History Place, Adolf Hitler, 1933)A few days later the SA and SS brok...
